Sentences with phrase «lorded over grambling»

Borrowing money and receiving financial gifts are no longer lorded over by big banks with their own, monolithic agendas.

The USA reporting is handled locally and then lorded over by greedy energy consultants at the national level.

Such a pitiful social - media plea would have been unthinkable in Painter's prime, when he lorded over the L.A. scene like the bastard son of P. T. Barnum and Suge Knight, a street - styled autodidact art savant who was mentored by a Who's Who of legendary dealers, including Leo Castelli and Walter Hopps, by day and by night scandalized cities from L.A. to Berlin alongside art gods like Mike Kelley and Martin Kippenberger.

Michael Slenske writes, «in Painter's prime, -LSB-...] he lorded over the L.A. scene like the bastard son of P. T. Barnum and Suge Knight, a street - styled autodidact art savant who was mentored by a Who's Who of legendary dealers, including Leo Castelli and Walter Hopps, by day and by night scandalized cities from L.A. to Berlin alongside art gods like Mike Kelley and Martin Kippenberger.»

The basic concept is the same — you're set loose in a city where absolutely everything is online and lorded over by sinister tech giants — but this is a world that went through a lot of changes after Aiden Pearce rampaged through Chicago's criminal underworld on a quest for revenge, and all of those changes are designed to make Watch Dogs 2 a more fun, flexible experience than its gritty predecessor.

Back To The Future: The Game — Episode 3 — Free With Season Pass (Free) In «Citizen Brown», the 3rd episode of this 5 game series, a time - stranded Marty has a rough and tumble return to the 1980s and finds himself in a topsy - turvy version of the world lorded over by the enigmatic «First Citizen Brown.»

This year's Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, from the same developer, pays tribute to this tradition with the lovingly - cel - shaded Tombstone Trail casino, an avaricious undead haunt lorded over by skeletal croupiers in fetching top hats.

Like Pulp, Gary King (Simon Pegg) was in his glory in the early 1990s, when he lorded over the sleepy English hamlet of Newton Haven as the big man on its (high school) campus — a leather - jacketed wild man whose pals were only too content to slip into their roles as sidekicks.

Just as Harvey Weinstein did at the Oscars, the disgraced movie mogul lorded over the festival world, which provided the glitzy, champagne - flowing setting for many of his alleged crimes.

Reynolds plays a former pro football player who lands in a prison lorded over by a sadistic warden.

But when that release also represents a reunion with generational talent Daniel Day - Lewis, who so powerfully lorded over There Will Be Blood ten years ago, in what is purported to be his last film prior to retirement, that's something else entirely.

The camera is weapon and savior, mediator and patient observer, but it is never objective in Cameraperson, an extraordinary and singular filmmaking document by Kirsten Johnson that quietly lorded over everything I saw at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

And still only a launchpad for three centuries of Marvel phases lorded over by an eventually - cybernetic Kevin Feige.

Once we are two, three layers and two aspect ratios removed from contemporary reality (or Anderson's slightly less geometrically precise vision of contemporary reality), we are introduced to the world of this baroque mountaintop spa hotel, lorded over by the obscenely devoted and motor - mouthed concierge M Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) and his pencil - mostachio'd lobby boy - cum - protege, Zero (Tony Revolori).

They are lorded over by Lazlo Gogolak (Kevin Pollak), the father of the mob boss Oz and Jimmy eliminated in the previous movie.

They soon come across an angry, out of control young mutant named Russell (Julian Dennison) who conjures fire and hates the abusive private institute where he's lorded over by a creepy school master.

-RRB- who conjures fire and hates the abusive private institute where he's lorded over by a creepy school master.

Once Thor and Loki learn that Odin is dead, they scarcely have time to mourn before their long - ago banished sister, Hela, the Norse goddess of death (Cate Blanchett, doing exactly what would be expected of the villainess from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), materializes and lays claim to the throne, projecting her brothers to a planet where metallic detritus is the precipitation and society is organized around a gladiator pit lorded over by Jeff Goldblum.

In reality, the real Thunder Riders disappear 25,000 ft. below the earth's surface to the «Scientific City of Murania,» an underground empire lorded over by Queen Tika (Dorothy Christy), a blonde Amazonian who constantly compares her superior society with that of the pitiful world above.

Jason Bateman plays the everyman (ya know - the Ed Helms - role), who's lorded over by psychotic Kevin Spacey, who manages to make the other horrible boss he played, Buddy from SWIMMING WITH SHARKS, look almost saintly by comparison.

It's lorded over by Stephen (an almost unrecognisable Samuel L. Jackson), an ageing house slave who might look like Uncle Ben off of the rice box, but who has a heart as black as coal, in particular when it comes to strangers in his midst.

That may not be so simple in Nassau County, where Mr. Skelos lorded over local politics from his perch in the Senate.

Boko Haram simply lorded it over us as a people; hoisted flags everywhere; imposed taxes; ran parallel governments while the bulk of the resources meant for tackling terrorism went into private bank accounts through the conduit of PDP's campaign offices and gladiators.

Every season Wenger is lorded over for yet again qualifying from an easy group as if it was a difficult task.

Arsenal are just an old fashioned club with old fashioned principles lorded over by a bunch of old men who no longer have any business in football.

While some of the chefs were milling about the dining room, last year's best - new - restaurant winner Ari Taymor of Alma lorded over a fierce Grillworks grill for most of the night, doing quality control on his lamb saddle, which was served family - style and accompanied by McFadden's Amish butter polenta with corn and Parmesan.

While oats have long lorded over breakfast, brewers have increasingly been adding the a.m. fave to beer, lending a lustrous, silky quality and mouthfeel as creamy as a whole - milk latté.

This is a scary word because it can be easily manipulated and lorded over people to require submission and conformity.

Men lorded it over women and considered them as inferior creatures.

The underlying concern here has vexed theologians for centuries: How can evil happen in a world that is lorded over by a good and all - powerful God?

Some of these public servants are right in saying, «Let's do it right this time» because, remember, the rush job under Obamacare gave us what we're having to deal with today, which is the devastating system that is again lorded over us,» Palin said.

But the White House has repeatedly undermined its own legal case, including by intimating that the tariffs would be lorded over Canada and Mexico as some kind of negotiating tool to extract NAFTA concessions.

It becomes important in adolescence when a flood of hormones changes the reward centers in the brain and causes lording it over others to suddenly become much more pleasurable.

Don't lord over associates.

In fact, according to a refreshing recent Quartz article by Oxford University professor William MacAskill and his partner, PhD philosophy student Amanda MacAskill, lots of common «mistakes» language snobs like to lord over the common man aren't even mistakes at all, including these:

They're the castle on the hill, lording it over the town below.

[1] A ruling class of pigs emerges that lord over the other animals with claims of higher knowledge and importance to the cause.

My point is to say if I somehow possessed the knowledge to create a sentient form of life I would not lord over it.

You can say that you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you can say you don't believe he's God, it doesn't change the fact that he exist and is lord over all; just take a deep breath and look at all that surrounds you.

God is just another God in the line of Mormon Gods... you too can be God over your own planet... most believe that God lords over this Universe... not Mormons... the believe they will be God over their OWN PLANET!

I do not think our God to be so egotistical that He just puts rules in place that are there purely to lord it over us that He is God... they are there to protect us.

The LORD is able to reveal Himself and His truth by His Spirit and His Word without the help of «clergy», «scholars» and those who would love to Lord over God's heritage.

You become saved by repenting of sin and asking Jesus to come into your heart and to be Lord over your life.

The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

Then a lot of other things come to mind (like references to «that which is Caesar's» versus «that which is God's» and admonishment to «not lord it over one another» and then there's the whole deliverance from Egyptian slavery thing...)

I simply acknowledge that Jesus is Lord over my life, and it is my heart's desire to serve Him!

They do not serve it, but rather lord over it to convert it into something it's natively not.

Authoritarian pastoring («You need to follow what I say because you're under my authority as your pastor») hides its «lording over» character in scriptural underpinnings.

He rose to show he indeed is Lord over life and death, other wise he would have just been another crazy man making crazy claims and dying and that being the end of him.

24Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, because it is by faith you stand firm.